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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By : Chaz Chumley
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Drupal 8 Theming with Twig

By: Chaz Chumley

Overview of this book

Drupal 8 is an open source content management system and powerful framework that helps deliver great websites to individuals and organizations, including non-profits, commercial, and government around the globe. This new release has been built on top of object-oriented PHP and includes more than a handful of improvements such as a better user experience, cleaner HTML5 markup, a new templating engine called Twig, multilingual capabilities, new configuration management, and effortless content authoring. Drupal 8 will quickly become the new standard for deploying content to both the web and mobile applications. However, with so many new changes, it can quickly become overwhelming knowing where to start and how to quickly. Starting from the bottom up, we will install, set up, and configure Drupal 8. We’ll navigate the Admin interface so you can learn how to work with core themes and create new custom block layouts. Walk through a real-world project to create a Twig theme from concept to completion while adopting best practices to implement CSS frameworks and JavaScript libraries. We will see just how quick and easy it is to create beautiful, responsive Drupal 8 websites while avoiding the common mistakes that many front-end developers make.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Drupal 8 Theming with Twig
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


The starter theme or subthemes are all just different variations on the same techniques. The level of effort to create each type of theme may vary, but as we saw there was a lot of repetition, and by now, we have already created a couple different themes. So, let's look back to what we covered in this chapter:

  • We began with a discussion around starter themes and learned what steps were involved in integrating a CSS framework such as Twitter Bootstrap.

  • We worked extensively with libraries and best practices for creating a homepage from a mockup. This included how to rethink layouts and how to avoid the pitfalls that we may come across when theming blocks and regions.

  • Working with the Theme layer came in handy when needing to understand what was available to us when working with preprocess functions. From using contributed modules such as Devel to print variables to creating Twig templates, we learned how to separate layout from presentation.

  • Finally, we took a quick look at subthemes...